Genesis 3:1-5, “Has God said? You will not! You will be as God - knowing good and evil” The challenge: His will or mine? God’s will: NO! My will: disregard God - His word and justice, embrace power and wisdom! They exercised a free will and cast all mankind into a bondage of the will - no longer free!... Continue Reading →
Psalm 50 Wisdom
God - the all-powerful Creator who has spoken to all men in Creation, in their conscience, through governments, through prophets and apostles and through His Son - is beautiful and glorious! 1-2, The Mighty One, God the Lord, has spoken and called the earth from the rising of the sun to its going down. Out of Zion, the... Continue Reading →
Saved? Three Questions
Most people are curious about others: where they are from, what they do, who they are related to and what is their fame. Most people who claim Jesus as Savior and believe there is a Hell to avoid and a solution to embrace, eventually ask others about their relationship with Jesus. They come to ask questions like:... Continue Reading →
Christians Commissioned
Matthew 28:16-20, Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, to the mountain which Jesus had appointed for them. When they saw Him, they worshiped Him; but some doubted. And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. 19-20, Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the... Continue Reading →
Tisha B’Av 9
On the Jews’ calendar, today in Tisha B’Av 9. It is a very special day of mourning for Jewish people commemorating the many tragedies that have befallen them on this day in history. It began at sundown yesterday and ends at sundown today. Here is a piece I put together concerning this back in 2016... Jews... Continue Reading →
Will of God 2023
For 2023, we used a set of verses from I Peter for targets. Consider: I Peter 4:1-2, Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind, for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, that he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh... Continue Reading →
The JBU Boys!
Friday, July 21, Janet and I left Gretna at 3:30 AM to arrive in Valparaiso, Indiana at 12:30 (1150 total miles) to celebrate a wedding made 50 years earlier – a wedding of two college friends whom we hobnobbed with a couple of years before their wedding. They were great friends then and have been and... Continue Reading →
Modern Christians
We live in a country rich with blessings because there were those before us who understood the values mentioned in the pledge to our flag: I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands; one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. ... Continue Reading →
Deck or Alley People?
April 26, 1607, a cross was erected on the shore of Chesapeake Bay. On April 29 of the same year, another cross was erected at Jamestown and this prayer of dedication was offered: “We do hereby dedicate this Land, and ourselves, to reach the People within these shores with the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and to... Continue Reading →
Hell Is for Real
A Day is Coming! – a Day of Judgment! – a Day of Reckoning! Romans 2:16, In the day when God will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ Between death and resurrection is this reality: So it was that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died... Continue Reading →
a PK Musing 